National Geographic Magazine, September 2013

A dent in the armour of denial of the mainstream media: National
Geographic magazine (September 2013 issue) has come out and said
it.

Here are some highlights from their article "Rising Sea Levels",
nicely timed to arrive in the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists
by the first anniversary of hurricane Sandy. In May the carbon-dioxide
content of the atmosphere has passed 400 parts per million, higher
than any time in the last three million years. From another source
("Smelling Land" by David Sanborn Scott) I have it that in the past
half million years temperatures (hence sea levels) have fallen and
risen in lockstep with carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere.

This lockstep is on the timescale of half a million years. However
closely one peers at the graphs, one can't tell whether the temperature
follows by a few years or by a few decades.Of course, persons in
power (government ministers, oil company executives) will fervently
acknowledge that this requires action, yet at the same time will
note that nothing drastic is likely to happen in the five years
that they are still in power, so can continue politics.